Horse-power



0. H. TUMEY.

HORSE POWER.

(No Model.)

Patented Aug. I 1882..

NITE STATES PATENT Prion,

CHARLES H. TUMEY, OF SAN ANTONIO, ASSIGNOR 01 ONE-HALF TO HAN- COCK & HANCOCK, CF AUSTIN, TEXAS.

HORSE-POWER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 262,152, dated August 1, 1882,

Application filed May 6, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES HENRY TU- MEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at San Antonio, in the county of Bexar, State 5 of Texas, have invented a new and useful Horse-Power, of which the following is a specication.

My invention relates to an improvement in horse-powers in which the horse which fur- IO nishes the power travels on a circular revolving platform, by means of which all the force expended by the horse is utilized.

The object of my improvement is to convert the force expended by the horse-in pushing as well as in pulling-into power by the use of a solid shaft turned by the revolving platform and working inside of a sleeve-shaft, which is turned by the lever. I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompany- 2o ing drawing, representing a perspective view,

and in which- A A are levers, fastened at F to the sleeveshaft C C.

B is the platform upon which thehorse walks,

and is supported by the braces 1 I, and the beams of which are seen at H H. The platform B is attached at G to the solid shaft D D, which rests and revolves in a gudgcon at E.

The sleeve-shaft C C is attached to the cog- 0 wheel J. The solid shaft D D passes through the sleeve 0 C, which it supports upon a shoulder at F, and also passes through the cogwheel J, through the inverted cog-wheel K, to which it is made fast, and into a box set in the 5 beam P. These two cog-wheels J and K bear on opposite sides upon the pinion L, to which is attached the shaft M, on which is the bandwheel N.

The operation of the machine is as follows: As the horse travels in the direction indicated by the arrow It he draws after him the lever A, and by this means turns the sleeve-shaft C C and the cog-wheel J in the direction indicated by the arrow S. The cog-wheel J exerts a force upon. the bottom of the pinion L in the 5 direction indicated by the arrow T. The horse at the same time pushes behind him the platform Bin the direction indicated by the arrow U, thus turning the solid shaft D D and the cog-wheel Kin the direction indicated by thear- 5o row V. The cog-wheel K thus exertsa force upon the top of the pinion L in the direction indicated by the arrow W. The two forces thus exerted by the cog-wheelsJ and K turn the pinion L, the shaft M, and the band-wheel Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a horse-power, the combination of the hollow or sleeve shaft 0, carrying the sweep or lever A and bevel-gear wheel J, with the revolving platform B, solid shaft D, bevel-gear wheel K, and driven shaft M, having the pinion L, all constructed and relatively arranged as herein shown, to operate in the manner set I forth.

CHARLES HENRY TUMEY.

WVitnesses:

H. G. RANDOLPH, JOHN B. COSTA. 

